Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral statement by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs to the House on 28 March on Afghan Resettlement Update, what data her Department holds on the accommodation of those Afghan nationals who are part of the 24,500 who have relocated in the UK but who are not part of the around (a) 8,000 in bridging hotels and (b) 9,000 in settled homes.
Answer
Bridging accommodation is available to those who need it. A number of people have not needed to use it for a variety of reasons. For example, they may be the immediate family of a British national who owns a property in the UK, they have been able to stay with other family or friends or they have taken steps to secure their own private rented accommodation.
The published operational data on Afghanistan including information on temporary accommodation and settled accommodation is viewable at: Afghan Resettlement Programme: operational data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Further data on accommodation may be included in future operational data releases. The next of which is on the 25 May 2023.